Bethlehem Lutheran Church.  Records of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Mitchell, South Dakota, 1904-1945.LCA Collection 107


 

Bethlehem Lutheran Church.  Records of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Mitchell, South Dakota, 1904-1945.  LCA Collection 107.  1 Hollinger box and 1 legal Hollinger box.


ABSTRACT:
The Bethlehem Lutheran Church collection contains a variety of documents relating to the church.  Included are minutes of the congregation, records of membership, financial information, ledgers of the Ladies Aid, and Sunday school logs.  Materials are printed in both Swedish and English.  Bethlehem Lutheran Church was located in Mitchell, South Dakota. Today, after name changes and a merger, the church is known as New Home Lutheran Church.


RESTRICTIONS:
There are no restrictions on the use of this collection for research purposes. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Lutheran Church Archives, the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library, and Gustavus Adolphus College.


COLLECTION CITATION:
Bethlehem Lutheran Church.  Records of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Mitchell, South Dakota, 1904-1945. LCA Collection 107.  Gustavus Adolphus College, Lutheran Church Archives, St. Peter, Minnesota.


PROCESSED BY:
Libby Larson, student worker, processed this collection and developed the finding aid during April 2012.


RELATED COLLECTIONS IN OTHER ARCHIVES:
New Home Lutheran Church (Mitchell, S.D.) records.  Augustana College, Special Collections and Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Rock Island, Illinois.


SUBJECT HEADINGS:
Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Mitchell, South Dakota.)
New Home Lutheran Church (Mitchell, South Dakota.)
Protestant Churches -- United States.
Protestant Churches -- South Dakota -- Davison County.
Swedish Americans -- South Dakota -- Mitchell.
Church records and registers -- South Dakota -- Mitchell.


LCA Collection 107

Box

Folder

Church Board Minutes, 1930-1942

1

4

Financial Ledger, 1943-1945

2

7

Ladies Aid Ledger, 1941-1946

2

6

Ladies Aid Secretary Book, 1921-1926

2

1

Membership, List of names taken from account book, 1928-1935

1

3

Minutes of Congregation, 1904-1922

1

1

Minutes of Congregation and Parochial Reports, 1927-1945

1

2

Missionary Society Treasurer’s Book, 1932-1944

2

3

Receipts and Finances, 1934-1942

2

4

Sekreterivebok (?), 1926

2

2

Sunday School Ledger, 1933

1

5

Sunday school treasury book, 1939-1945

2

5

Women’s Missionary Society, 1945

2

8